Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Maureen Raeside 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Wilda Seymour 2017 Director $0 $0 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Gordon M Cook Jr 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Brad Groves 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Josh Hushon 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Boyd Schaufelberger 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Rod Stoll 2017 Trustee $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Tom Thorbahn 2017 Chairman $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Pete Kappelman 2017 Vice Chairman $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Lorilee Schultz 2017 Secretary $0 $0 HOLSTEIN FOUNDATION INC
Jenny Carter 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Allen Chip Evans 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
James Feinson 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
David Porteous 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Elizabeth Sightler 2017 Secretary $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Richard Wizansky 2017 Trustee $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Bob Woody Woodworth 2017 Chair $0 $0 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Ruthann Sullivan 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Jen Pia-Needleman 2017 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Leslie Roth 2017 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Elly Wood 2017 Board Chair $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Julie Robichaux 2017 Secretary $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Samara Mays 2017 Board $0 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
Theodore Lane Phd 2017 Director $0 $0 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING & RESEARCH INC
Harold Leitenberg Phd 2017 Director $0 $0 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING & RESEARCH INC

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.